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PENNY PENNISTON |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Penniston is a Chicago-area playwright. Her most recent play, NOW THEN AGAIN, won a Joseph Jefferson Citation for "Best New Work" and was published by Broadway Play Publishing in the Fall of 2001. A screenplay adaptation of this play was selected for the 2005 Tribeca Film Institute / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation development program. As part of this program, Penny is developing the script under the mentorship of director/screenwriter Nora Ephron and Physicist Brian Greene. Previously, Penny co-authored THE ROARING GIRL with her husband, director Jeremy Wechsler. This adaptation of the 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker had its world premiere in Chicago with Shakespeare's Motley Crew in the Fall of 1999 and received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for "Best Adaptation." Penny teaches playwriting in the theater department at Northwestern University.
Plays by Penny Penniston
Now Then Again | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
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Genre: | Romantic Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | A time-bending love story between two physicists. Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as ". . .a deft little romantic screwball comedy with a very brainy twist. It brings to mind some of Tom Stoppard's more intellectual theatrical hijinks. But it's also the kind of work that might have beguiled such 1930's and '40s era film directors as Frank Capra and Preston Sturges, who probably would have hired Albert Einstein as a script consultant." | |||||
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Roaring Girl, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chicago, Illinois | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Shakespeare's Motley Crew | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #55372 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | written by Jeremy Wechsler and Penny Penniston | |||||
Synopsis: | This is an adaptation of the 1611 comedy by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker. Middleton and Dekker's play was inspired by the real-life character of Moll Cutpruse, a female thief and con-artist who lived in early 17th century London. The play is an action-packed adventure story about star-crossed lovers, conspiring noblemen, and, in the middle of it all, Moll Cutpurse, the fast-talking sword-wielding Roaring Girl. | |||||
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